GirlChat #724660
so it seems both sides across the great divide widely use that term but ascribe more or less opposite meanings to it.
As a fairly small group, childlovers use it in an entirely positive way. But, the overwhelming majority out there use it to signify all that is evil and corrupted. I have been debating within myself, as well as online, whether to relinquish the use of this term and hand it over to the enemy, on a platter. some reasons for doing this: -the idea that a paedophile is someone that abuses, and takes advantage of children is very well accepted in the world. -this term started out as a clinical designation for a "sexual disorder". -belonging to the most hated element of society is not a pleasing thought to me. Let us use alternatives to "paedophile" - or would it be a seeming sacrilege to let go of it? |